was captured by the Xuzhou army together, as well as the eldest son of the general of Youzhou Daijun, but Jia was not captured by the Xuzhou army that night, nor was he captured by the Xuzhou army in the pursuit battle, but after the Xuzhou army had stopped the pursuit, he sent it to the door to make meritorious service to the Xuzhou army.

On the night of the robbery, Jiajia was once surrounded by the Xuzhou army, but relying on the Zhaozhao arrangement to Xie Jun, the deputy of Jiajia, sacrificed his life to save him, and Jiajia still rushed out of the encirclement with the Karasuma Raider, and successively highlighted the encirclement inside and outside the camp of the Xuzhou Army twice, and relied on the advantage of the war horse to get rid of the pursuit of the Xuzhou Army, and fled to the safety of the north of the Xuzhou River faster than anyone else, and at the same time, the four thousand Karasuma Turquoise cavalry brought from Daijun also maintained more than 2,500 people, and the casualties were the smallest in the Youzhou army.

According to common sense, it is impossible for Zhanjia to be held by the Xuzhou army anymore, but who would have thought that at this time, the Hu mercenaries in the Karasuma Turquoise cavalry team began to mess around, taking advantage of the chaos to loot the Tantai Pavilion in the west of Guangnian County, and looting grain and cattle and chickens, and even raping and killing people, and the loyal Yuan Jia was furious, and immediately came forward to stop it, never thought that those Hu mercenaries not only did not restrain themselves, but also simply pulled out their swords to resist the enforcement of military law by force, threatened that if Jia Jia dared to meddle in his affairs, he would take down Jia and Xie Jun and dedicate it to the Xuzhou Army for merit.

It is not possible to blame the incompetence of the Jiazhi army, the key is that the Hu mercenaries have never been easy to manage and restrain them, and they are barely obedient when they are in Daijun, and they are far richer than the border passes of Daijun, and they have no prestige constraints. The Hu mercenaries who just suffered a big defeat and urgently need to vent their emotions will not be called barbarians if they don't mess around. And Kanjia was young and vigorous, and he cared about the popularity of the people and the army, so it was naturally impossible to make concessions, and as a result, he didn't agree with each other, so Kanjia led the Karasuma Tucai and the Hu mercenaries who were loyal to him.

During the camp raid, the Karasuma Turchiers, who were loyal to the father and son of the Karasuma clan, had to protect the Kazuka while taking care of their allies and properly rescue them, resulting in heavy casualties. The Hu mercenaries were reckless and fled for their lives. In order to find a way out, he even trampled on his allies, with fewer casualties, and he was able to attack his companions who belonged to the same team, and he still had a psychological advantage. As a result, the fire rose up, and Jia's side naturally suffered. was forced to escape the river again to temporarily avoid the edge. But the Hu mercenaries did not give up. chased after the water again, and was ready to capture Jia and Xie Jun together and sacrifice them to the Xuzhou Army in exchange for glory and wealth, and they were in hot pursuit of Jia and Xie Jun.

To stay alive. Jiajia and Xie Jun once broke through to the east, but were blocked back by the Hu mercenaries, and were forced to run south, but after escaping seven or eight miles, they ran headlong into the Xuzhou team that had stopped the pursuit and was preparing to retreat in the whole team, and the Hu mercenaries behind shouted and shouted, saying that they wanted to dedicate Jia and Xie Jun to the Xuzhou army, and the Xuzhou army would not be polite when they saw that they had merit and took the initiative to come to the door, and under the joint efforts of the two, Lian Jia and Xie Jun and others naturally fell into the clutches of Deputy Director Tao, and the more than 1,000 Hu mercenaries who rebelled also surrendered to the Xuzhou army, expressed his willingness to serve the Xuzhou Army to fight Yuan Tan.

If it is replaced by another boss, these rebellious Hu mercenaries may be heroes, but it is a pity that these unlucky Hu mercenaries happened to meet the deputy director Tao who was not rewarded and punished, after learning the details of the matter, the first order given by Deputy Director Tao was to bury all these Hu mercenaries alive, Hu Bing found that the situation was not too late, Zhao Yun and Xu Chu's two teams had surrounded them, forcibly disarmed them, and after tying them up, they were all thrown into the deep pit dug by the prisoners of war of Youzhou soldiers, Fill the soil and water all the pits were killed, the Hu mercenaries cried and screamed, shouting and screaming in the babbling language, the scene was unbearable, but the Xuzhou army ignored it at all, and the Youzhou prisoners of war and the Daijun prisoners of war applauded together.

buried alive the Hu mercenaries who surrendered on their own initiative, Deputy Director Tao and others let the captured Jia and Xie Jun be escorted in front of him, and saw the Xuzhou Army bury Hu Bing alive Jia and Xie Jun also said that they would die, who would have thought that Deputy Director Tao scolded them for a bloody dog, and reprimanded the father and son for not bringing the Hu mercenaries to the Central Plains, leading wolves into the house to plague the people of the Han Dynasty, and also to keep in mind an ancient precept - if you are not of my race, your heart will be different! Then he ordered Lianjia to return to Daijun and tell Zhaozhao that if he dared to introduce Hu Bing into the Central Plains in the future, he would not accept the surrender of his father and son after he attacked Daijun!

finally scolded Jia Jia enough, Deputy Director Tao didn't bother to talk to Jia Jia again, and directly ordered Jia Jia and Jiang Qi to be locked up together, and let Jiang Qi explain the reason to Jia Jia, who must have been dizzy, first, Deputy Director Tao explained to Jia Jia himself, even if he wasted saliva, it would definitely be difficult to win the trust of Jia Jia immediately, it was better to let Jiang Qi do Jia Jia's ideological work first, and then spend some effort to envelop Jia when he released Jia Jia, and the second is that Deputy Director Tao has more important things to do, I can't spare time to show my thirst for talent, and love is like life.

The more important thing is, of course, how to completely annihilate the remnants of Yuan Tan's army in Yecheng, to be precise, how to seize the opportunity to quickly kill Yuan Tan himself, after defeating the Youzhou army that rescued Yecheng, the Xuzhou army in the south of Jizhou is actually only the enemy of Yecheng Yuan Tanjun, which is a rare fighter to kill Yuan Tan. But the problem is that after the Xuzhou army defeated Yuan Tan's Youzhou reinforcements, it was impossible for Yuan Tan to expect reinforcements in Yecheng for a short time, so Yuan Tan was likely to take the opportunity to break through before the Xuzhou army was heavily encircled, making Deputy Director Tao's previous arrangements fall short.

"We're running out of time." At the military intelligence discussion meeting, Deputy Director Tao had a worried face and said: "Handan is only eighty miles away from Yecheng, Yuan Tan's meticulous scouts will be able to send the news to Yecheng before noon tomorrow at the latest, our army has just finished a big battle, and it is impossible to return to the division to the Yecheng battlefield before tomorrow evening, in case Yuan Tan takes the opportunity to break through, then our established goal of killing Yuan Tan first will be wasted." ”

"Even if our army can rush to Yuan Tan's breakthrough and return to the Yecheng battlefield, it will be difficult to block Yuan Tan's breakthrough road." Xun Chen also said: "Unless we can complete the siege fortifications envisaged by the lord, our army can only severely damage Yuan Tan's team in the pursuit battle at most, but there is almost no hope of achieving the strategy of killing the pond and persisting proposed by Mr. Ziyu. The war in the north is only destined to drag on for a long time. ”

"We must think of a way to continue to stabilize Yuan Tan." Deputy Director Tao pondered and said: "If there is any way to make Yuan Tan think that he has a hope of victory if he sticks to Yecheng, we still have hope of blocking Yuan Tan in Yecheng City." ”

The direction was clearly judged, but how to make Yuan Tan see this hope, Deputy Director Tao was at a loss, Jia Lao Poison and Xun Chen were also frowning, and they couldn't think of any good way to mislead the enemy for a while, so that Yuan Tan's army temporarily gave up the breakthrough and waited for the Xuzhou army to complete the siege fortifications. Nervous calculations. Deputy Director Tao and Jia Lao Poison also thought of creating the illusion that Liu Biaojun would attack Jiangdong. made Yuan Tanjun think that the main force of the Xuzhou Army was about to return to the southern front, so he gave up breaking through immediately, but considering that this method was too slow, Yuan Tan, who had some contact with the outside world, might not be easily fooled. So it's not very sure.

Besides. Deputy Director Tao, who likes masochism, also considered another fraud. However, this trick has already been used against the Jizhou army once, and Yuan Tanjun, who has suffered losses and misbelief, may not continue to be fooled, so he quickly gave up this idea.

"My lord. How about using fake letters? Deputy Director Tao's secretary Chen Ying suddenly opened his mouth to suggest, and said: "Although Jiang Qi refused to surrender to our army, when our army broke through Jiang Qi's camp, we seized a lot of letters exchanged between him and Yuan Tan. ”

"False letters?" Deputy Director Tao was a little tempted and asked, "How do you write on the letter?" ”

"Let's just say that although Jiang Qi accidentally fell into the plan and was defeated by our army in Handan, the main force of the Youzhou army was not hit hard, and there is still the strength to fight." Chen Ying suggested: "Then it will be said that Jiang Qi is going to return to Pingxiang to regroup his troops and horses, and then he will go south again as soon as possible to rescue Yecheng, and take Yuan Tan to break through to Youzhou in the north, so that once Yuan Tan believes it, even if he is ready to break through, he will wait until the Youzhou army goes south again before breaking through, so that he can break through more safely, break through with more troops, and buy time for our army to return to the division and besiege the city." ”

"Will this work?" Deputy Director Tao was a little worried, and said: "Although Yuan Tan's meticulous work and scouts may not be able to find out the news that Jiang Qi has been captured by our army, Yan Rou and Yin Kui, the civil and military forces of the Yuan army, have already fled, in case they also send the news to Yecheng, not to mention the failure of our strategy, I am afraid it will be self-defeating, so that Yuan Tan can understand the true purpose of our army." ”

"Don't worry about that, my lord." Chen Ying said: "The battlefield last night was so chaotic, Yan Rou and Yin Kui, the civil and military forces of the Yuan army, may not know that Jiang Qi has been captured, even if they have heard about it, they may not dare to be gullible immediately, in the same way, even if Yuan Tan hears that Jiang Qi has been captured, he will definitely not dare to be gullible immediately, just like our army collects battle reports carefully, without confirmed news, we dare not believe it immediately." ”

"Also, not to mention that Yan Rou and Yin Kui may not have thought of writing to Yuan Tan immediately to report the military situation, and their messengers can also send the letter to Yecheng smoothly." Chen Ying added: "As long as Yuan Tan believes that this fake letter was sent by Jiang Qi, then as long as we preemptively send the fake letter to Yecheng, Yuan Tan has a preconceived idea, even if he receives the letter from Yan Rou and Yin Kui, he will definitely suspect that Yan Rou and Yin Kui have rebelled, and the letter will be suspicious and will not be able to make up his mind for a while." ”

"My lord, Yuan Fang's hand may be okay to confuse the public." Xun Chen opened his mouth and said: "Chen Jiu is in Jizhou, he knows the character of Yuan's father and son, the old master Yuan Shao is indecisive, resourceful and decisive, but Yuan Tan is a noisy personality, easy to kill, if our army can preemptively send Jiang Qi's fake book into Yecheng, then once Yuan Tan sees the book, he will definitely make up his mind to defend to the end, preconceived, even if Yan Rou and Yin Kui's messenger luckily passed through the blockade of our army and sent the news into Yecheng, Yuan Tan will inevitably believe the first letter first, and will not believe the second letter, He will even suspect that the second letter is a trick of our army to lure the enemy, and suspect that our army used a fake book to induce him to abandon the fortified city and break through the siege and send him to death! ”

After that, Xun Chen hurriedly added, "But there is one thing that please pay attention to, how our army can make Yuan Tan believe that the first letter was sent by Jiang Qi is the biggest problem, especially the messenger who enters the city to send the letter is more important, because this messenger will definitely never have a chance to enter the city after entering the city, and he will definitely be repeatedly interrogated and investigated by Yuan Tan's team. ”

"So, I'm looking for a messenger who can be trusted." Deputy Director Tao frowned again, because this messenger was not easy to find. After entering Yecheng, Yuan Tan is dead, and after deceiving Yuan Tan, he will also die after the truth is exposed, which can be said to be a mortal task, and it is definitely not an easy task to find a person to carry out this mortal task.

"Don't worry, lord." Chen Ying's words were shocking, and he said with a smile: "In fact, before his subordinates made this suggestion, they had already thought about how to send a letter into the city and win Yuan Tan's letter. Your Majesty thinks that our army can do ...... in this way. ”

Chen Ying quickly said his plan, and after the result was finished, Chen Ying was surprised. Deputy Director Tao, Jia Lao Poison and Xun Chen not only did not applaud. Still looking himself up and down with eyes as if he didn't know himself, Chen Ying was a little weak-hearted, and asked timidly: "Lord, military advisor." Mr. Tomoruo. Am I ridiculous about this plan? Isn't it feasible? ”

"It's not impossible. It's too doable. Deputy Director Tao was depressed, and then hurriedly asked, "Yuan Fang, when did you learn to be so bad?" Such a idea. If it were changed, I'm afraid I'll be fooled, how did you come up with it? ”

"I ......, that's how I came up with it." Chen Ying replied blankly: "I should always accompany the lord around, whenever I meet to discuss the military situation, I should accompany the draft text by the side, and often listen to the lord and the military advisor discuss how to harm people, so I also learned a little, and then I also began to use my brain to study how to harm people." ”

"It's over!" Deputy Director Tao slapped his forehead and screamed: "In my big tent of the Chinese army, there is no honest person at all this time, even Yuan Fang, you have been completely damaged!" ”

Jokes and jokes, finalized this plan to confuse the public, Deputy Director Tao immediately made a decision to act according to the plan, ordered the guards to take the handwritten letter of Jiang Qi captured in the Youzhou military camp, and handed it to the handwriting expert Chen Ying to forge the letter, and deceived Yuan Tan to give up the immediate breakthrough, and Chen Ying was worthy of relying on the imitation of handwriting to the iron rice bowl of Deputy Director Tao, and soon imitated a letter very similar to Jiang Qi's handwriting, Deputy Director Tao carefully read the great joy, and immediately sent him to Yecheng to act according to the plan. However, at this moment, Jia Lao, who was carefully studying Jiang Qi's letter, called out and said, "Wait, lord, it seems that it is still a little close!" ”

"That's not even the point?" Deputy Director Tao hurriedly asked.

"Lord, please see, this is a letter written by Jiang Qi to Yuan Tan." Jia Lao Poison spread the letter in his hand in front of Deputy Director Tao and others, pointed to the letter and said: "The content of the letter is that Jiang Qi reported that the army had arrived at the battlefield in Handan, and it was not written so it was not sent out in time, so it is likely that this letter was written by Jiang Qi yesterday afternoon, and it is likely that it was interrupted because of the arrival of the frustrated bird, but these are not important, the important thing is that there is a small ink dot under the sixth word in the third row." ”

Deputy Director Tao carefully read the letter and found that the situation was just like Jia Lao's poison introduction, there was a small ink dot under the sixth word in the third row, which seemed to be unintentionally touched, or it may have been deliberately pointed, and then Deputy Director Tao immediately ordered: "Yuan Fang, plus this ink dot, if this is the fake secret mark agreed by Jiang Qi and Yuan Tan, then we have a greater chance of success this time." ”

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Xun Chen somewhat underestimated the speed of Yuan Tanjun's meticulous delivery of news, in fact, in the early morning of the second day after the end of the Handan War, Yuan Jun's meticulous work had already sent the news to Yecheng, and learned that Jiang Qi's army had failed in an ambush in the camp, and Yuan Tan Gongzi, who hurriedly got up from the bed, collapsed on the cushion on the spot, and only came back to his senses after a while, and yelled at Xizuo, who had only touched Yecheng under the cover of night: "How is the battle?" Is Jiang Qi's loss big? Is there still the strength to fight? ”

"My lord, these have not yet had time to be discovered." Xizuo replied with a sad face: "The villain only found out that Jiang Tingshi has been defeated, and how many losses there are for the time being cannot be discovered, in addition, the villain also found out, because the pottery thieves and soldiers and horses also took the opportunity to rob the camp, and have already captured the camp of Jiang Tingshi, our Youzhou soldiers and horses were defeated to the north, and we didn't have time to find out where we went!" ”

"Rubbish!" Yuan Tan roared angrily, and roared again: "Then don't you hurry up and spy again, you must find out for me, where Jiang Qi has fled, and is it possible to save Youzhou again?!" ”

"No." Xiao Zuo first sang a promise, and then said timidly: "Lord, the villain may not dare to go out of the city until night, the pottery thief team also has a garrison on the north bank of Zhangshui, it is difficult to have a chance to pass through their blockade during the day, and only at night can there be hope to pass through the pottery thief defense line." ”

"Rubbish!" Yuan Tan Gongzi scolded again angrily.

"Lord, don't embarrass him." Mr. Guo Tu rarely sent a kindness, and defended: "What he said is the truth, it is difficult for our army to mix with the defense line of the pottery thieves during the day, let him go down to rest, the lord please rest assured, our army still has fine work in the Handan area, Jiang Yihan and they will definitely find a way to contact our army, so the lord does not have to be anxious, there will definitely be follow-up news." ”

Yuan Tan Gongzi slapped the case heavily, and then waved his hand to let the fine work go down to rest, and then roared: "Waste! It's all rubbish! Frustration is waste, Jiang Qi is waste, it's all waste! It's all a day, it's all a day to be defeated by the pottery thief, the pottery thief has three heads and six arms, can he be so powerful?! ”

"Judging from the detailed description, Jiang Qi should have fallen for the pottery thief's trick to lure the enemy, so he rashly robbed the camp and was ambushed by the pottery thief." The senior cadre next to him analyzed: "Jiang Qi is a veteran of our army, he has always been steady, and he will not take risks easily. ”

"Even if it's a mistake in judgment, it's waste!" Yuan Tan Gongzi roared again.

Seeing that Yuan Tan Gongzi was in an extremely bad mood, Guo Tu hurriedly comforted: "The lord doesn't have to worry, the soldiers under the command of Jiang Tingshi are all soldiers who have been fighting with Wuheng Xianbei outside the fortress all the year round, and the elite is still above the main force of our army, and he is in the middle of the open terrain of Handan, even if he encounters a small setback, he will definitely be able to keep his strength and make a comeback, the lord only needs to sit in the city and wait for good news, there will definitely be a turnaround." ”

Listening to Guo Tu's relief, Yuan Tan's face slowed down a little, but Gao Gan hurriedly said: "Lord, I think our army can no longer hold on to help, the pottery thief soldiers are full of food, and they are not afraid of confronting our army on the Yecheng battlefield at all, no matter how our army mobilizes troops and horses to help, it will only give the pottery thieves a chance to besiege the city and send reinforcements, and eat up all the reinforcements of our army one by one!" ”

"The current plan, our army should abandon the city as soon as possible to break through, take advantage of the pottery thief's main force in Handan has not had time to go south to encircle our army, and break through to the north of Jizhou, Youzhou and Bingzhou as soon as possible, so that our army has the opportunity to make a comeback, far better than passively guarding Yecheng and being trapped alive by the pottery thief!"

If it had been replaced a few days ago, Gao Gan would definitely have been sprayed to death by Yuan Tan Gongzi's saliva if he dared to make such a proposal, but today is different, after getting the news that Jiang Qi's reinforcements were also defeated, Yuan Tan Gongzi listened to Gao Gan's suggestion again, and finally moved his heart and began to think in his heart, "Do you really want to abandon the city and break through?" Give up Yecheng, but unfortunately, if you don't give up Yecheng, what if you are trapped to death by a pottery thief?! ”

"My lord! Lord! ”

At the critical moment, Yuan Tan Gongzi's confidant Peng An suddenly hurried in from outside the door, presented a feather arrow tied with a letter to Yuan Tan Gongzi, and quickly reported: "Lord Yu, there is only one cavalry of our army, who was chased by the Tao Thief Cavalry and rushed to the west gate of Yecheng, and was surrounded by the Tao Thief Cavalry before entering the city. Before being captured by the pottery thief, he shouted out his identity, saying that he was the personal soldier of Jiang Thorn Shi in Youzhou! ”

"Great! Jiang Qi really sent someone to contact me! Yuan Tan Gongzi was overjoyed and hurriedly went to unravel the letter.

"Lord, pay attention to the secret of your contact with Jiang Yihan." Mr. Guo Tu reminded very smartly: "The pottery thief is treacherous, you need to prevent him from arranging an ambush in advance, and then use a fake book to trick you out of the city and ambush!" (To be continued......)